Workers protest cuts by provincial government and LTC profiteer Extendicare By PV staff COVID-19 cases in Alberta famously surged during the federal election, prompting right-wing premier Jason Kenney to publicly apologize for his [...]
In a move which reveals the clownish willingness of the Kenney government to subordinate policy to ideology, the provincial government has sent letters to the four major universities in Alberta demanding a witch hunt against research that involves [...]
PV Alberta Bureau To market its new budget, released on February 25, Alberta’s United Conservative government chose the image of a family flying down a hill on a toboggan. It’s an eerily appropriate choice – with its massive drop in healthcare [...]
By Corinne Benson Jason Kenney’s government has been dancing all over on coal policy. First, they talk to Australian coal mining companies before letting Albertans know they are planning to rescind the 1976 coal policy and allow mountaintop [...]
By Corinne Benson From what I have unfortunately had to witness personally, it is hard to imagine making Alberta’s workers’ compensation laws worse. I have been to the funerals of two Chilean Canadians, who escaped being dumped into the sea [...]
By Corinne Benson Spread your legs Alberta. Australian mining corporations are already preparing to open-pit mine in the Bighorn area of the Rocky Mountains. Since 1976 the Coal Development Policy has guided land use over many aspects of coal [...]
In 1972, the impoverished and oppressed people of Nicaragua suffered a terrible crisis when an earthquake struck the capital of Managua. An estimated 5000 people were killed, and the city centre was destroyed. International humanitarian aid flowed [...]
Hospital workers in Alberta have been ruled back to work by a court injunction, after an impressive wildcat strike at hospitals across the province. The militant action, which began on October 26, is in response to Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s [...]
By Lana Smidt On July 7, the United Conservative Party government of Jason Kenney introduced Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act. It’s a massive omnibus bill that amends six different labour and employment relations [...]
By Sasha Colvin, Jeremy Abbott, Luis Cifuentes In the morning on June 25, just over 30 workers of Boilermaker Lodge 146 of Edmonton-based CESSCO Fabrication and Engineering found themselves served with a lockout notice after two and a half years [...]
